Monday, May 13, 2019

Blue is one of my favorite colors. The shades of indigo, royal blue, prussian blue, cerulean, sky blue and turquoise are particularly pleasing to me. You can imagine how ecstatic I am about the trending blue eye shadow. It's not that old fashioned, intense blue the goes from the lash line to the brows that Mimi used to wear on the Drew Carey Show. It's now a soft mix of well blended shades of blue and other colors including gold, silver, white, black and peach.If you missed it, here is a pic of Katy Perry's blue shadow on an episode of American Idol.

Gorgeous!!!💙

Now, her shadow is quite dramatic, not necessarily a style you would choose to wear for work or even for a night out. It's makeup for television and it's intense and amazing under the lights. It certainly can be modified to be more wearable in everyday life.

I use blue eye shadow quite frequently for prom and wedding makeup. It's nice to accent the eyes with a little blue when wearing a blue dress.

You can create a dramatic full on blue shadow look like Katy's with eye shadow or use a blue eyeliner to add just a touch of blue. You can get the blues with a blue lipstick as well.

Let's start with eye shadow.

Eye Shadow

There are lots of great eye shadow palettes available that include blues to create some beautiful blue eye shadow looks.

I like to incorporate a bit of peach shadow to my blue eye shadow look to create a softer, easy to wear look. Orange and blue are complimentary colors so they work very well together.

Apply a peachy shadow to the inner third of the eyelid. Add a light blue to the center of the eyelid. Apply a deeper blue to the outer third of the eyelid. Use an eye shadow brush to blend the colors together. Blending is the key to perfect eye shadow.

The Morphe Cosmetics James Charles Palette provides you with some gorgeous blue and peach options along with other vibrant color choices. It's a really popular, fun palette even James Charles has gotten himself into a bit of a pickle.

The Sleek I-Divine Makeup Bad Girl Palette has beautiful shades of blue along with other beautiful shades including purple and green. This palette costs under $15 so you can get a blue look without breaking the bank.

For some blue sparkle, I recommend The Urban Decay Moondust Palette. I always love Urban Decay products! This palette has Vega, a beautiful bright blue, and Galaxy, a smoky blue gray. Element and Specter pair well with the blues. I'm loving the green, Lightyear, too! It would create a sparkling Caribbean sea look when paired with the Vega!

Eye Liner

A pencil eyeliner in blue is a super easy way to add a touch of blue to your eyes. It looks especially pretty paired with eye shadow in shades of nude and gold. Also, deep blue eyeliner applied over black eyeliner intensifies the black creating dramatic color.

NYX Slide on pencil in Sunrise Blue is a lovely medium shade of blue.

Blinc Long Wearing Eyeliner Pencil in Blue is a smoky denim blue

Bare Minerals Long Lasting Eyeliner in Nonstop Navy is a nice alternative to black liner. I frequently use navy liner when applying wedding makeup instead of black liner.

Lipstick

Blue lipstick is not for me even though I love blue. Maybe if it was around when I was younger, I would have worn it. A Blurple (bluish purple) is as far as I'll go! Here are a few pretty blue lipsticks to try.

Now this is one of my very favorite blue things! Blue nail polish, especially blue polish on my toes. My clients will tell you. I almost always have blue toes! There are so many beautiful blues to try. I'll share a few shades from my favorite nail polish brand, Zoya.

Zoya Aire is a rich dusty blue cream. It's what I'm wearing in the pic above.

Monday, May 6, 2019

The name of Zoya's summer nail polish collection is just perfect for me. Barefoot.

I love to be barefoot with pretty polished toes! Especially when I'm barefoot on the beach with my pretty polished toes in the sand!

The 12 colors in the Barefoot collection are beachy and happy. It's a rainbow of colors that perfectly represent the sun, sea, sand and sea shells in cream, shimmer and a glitter finishes. There is a color to please everyone in this collection! The color getting the most attention so far at the salon is Keira, a soft metallic color that reminds of sand.Maybe Kiera is the favorite so far because it's a soft neutral color that works well for the springtime. We'll see which color becomes the favorite when we get into summertime.Are you plagued with brittle nails? Click here for remedies.My sweet feral kitty friend joined me on the deck for my cloudy day photo shoot. Isn't he adorable? He's the fattest feral cat I've ever seen! He obviously knows which houses in the neighborhood provide cat food.

Let's start the rainbow of polish colors in the Zoya Barefoot collection with the soft peachy Joey.

Joey

Zoya Joey is a soft pinky peach cream seashell color. It's opaque finish is bright and bold yet has a softness about it. So beautiful!

Tessa

Zoya Tessa is a metallic warm peach with a gold and coral micro shimmer. Another beautiful seashell color!

Keira

Zoya Keira is a taupey sand color with a beautiful copper shimmer. Not a color that I would usually wear, but I think it looks fabulous on my toes! The cloudy day did not do this color justice. The copper shimmer really glimmers in the sunshine.

Marcy

Zoya Marcy is a sunny orange coral metallic. I'm not usually an orange girl, but this looks color bright and happy on my toes! The cloudy day also did not do this color justice. It shimmers beautifully in the sun.

Liza

Zoya Liza is raspberry cream that will look amazing on many different skin tones.

Robbie

Zoya Robbie is a warm raspberry with a fine gold glitter that shimmers in the sun. I think I need to add some sunny day pics to really some these shimmery colors off!

Darcy

Darcy is a fabulous hot pink cream. I call it the perfect bikini pink since it matches my favorite bikini perfectly!!!

Rie

Zoya Rie is a lovely medium to deep purple cream. Another color that reminds me of the colors in a seashell.

Walker

Zoya Walker is a rich nautical blue cream. You all know how I feel about blue. It's my favorite! I can't stop looking at my beautiful blue toes!!!

Eleni

Zoya Eleni is a light bright pale blue cream. Zoya describes it as a seafoam blue. It sort of has a minty look to it. It's another color that is light, bright and bold yet has softness about it.

Bee

Zoya Bee is a pale bright yellow cream. Not the best color for my skin tone but it looks pretty fun on my toes! This color makes me happier when it's topped with Nahla from the Zoya Sunshine collection. Scroll to the the pairings section to see the Bee and Nahla combination.

Dallas

Zoya Dallas is a clear with white and silver metallic glitter pieces. It looks gorgeous over all the colors!

There they are. The beautiful colors in the Zoya Barefoot Collection. Just perfect for summer. My clients and I will enjoy wearing them all one by one!

As always, Zoya professional nail lacquer wears quite well on natural nails and is free of the harmful ingredients formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin, dibutyl phthalate, toluene, camphor, TPHP, parabens, xylene, ethyl tosylamide and lead. You can find Zoya products at salons, spas, zoya.com and on Amazon. We carry Zoya nail polish at Styling Point in Media, Pa.

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